Papeis sociais de gênero.

This article proposes to analyze scenes of childbirth broadcasted by Brazilian soap operas broadcasted along four decades, carefully selected, aiming to identify the gender relations there inscribed, explicit or vailed. Therefore, we have opted by two complementary methods, the Content Analysis and the Analysis of Moving Images. For the discussion, we have considered especially authors belonged to the fields of Gender Studies and Social Communication centered on teledramaturgy, as well as the ones who study the childbirth as a social event and its fictional representation.As a result, we have identified three central axes, when converged, imprison the parturient and convert her into a biologically needed body, without her right/power to give birth. The lack of problematization regarding gender inequality in fictional childbirth, symptomatically, contributes for its naturalization.